Inventing Interactive
Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team recently shared a couple research projects that introduce some pretty amazing new methods of interacting with technology. Two of these projects, presented at Google I/O 2015 buy ATAP’s director Ivan Poupyrev (who I’ve posted about before), look at the relationship between screen size and the level of detail and control that a […]
I love it when designer talk about the process behind their work. And even more when that process is both thoughtful and sketchy. For it’s through sketching and making design tangible that one can begin to experience and understanding it. And from that comes learning and thus the ability to iterate and improve. Berg recently […]
I’ve posted before about Chrome Experiments (and just recently Google celebrated 500 Chrome Experiments) – but this new one, more like their grand experiments such as The Wilderness Downtown, is fascinating. Entitled Movi.Kanti.Revo it’s from Cirque du Soleil and was developed by Subatomic Systems. (Note: you’ll need to view it with Chrome.) It’s still got […]
Take a look at “3 Dreams of Black” — an interactive web-based music experience. It’s part song, part music video, and even a little crowdsourced content. Directed by Chris Milk and developed by Google, it’s an interesting followup to “The Wilderness Downtown“, which they worked on last year. The interactivity is fairly limited — restricted […]
Head over, immediately, to Google’s The Creative Internet. The site lists 106 examples of brilliant online creativity and experimentation. Many of them you’ve seen before, or I’ve posted here — and I suspect I’ll steal some things and do future posts about them — but seeing them all together is a great reminder of what’s […]
This week Arcade Fire launched the interactive video The Wilderness Downtown, based on their track We Used To Wait. Enter a street address (they suggest the address where you grew up), and a set of windows, with content synchronized to the song, delivers a mix of video, interactive pieces, and footage of your street address […]
Yesterday I received a Barneys Co-op catalog in the mail — in which all of the photos were shot in 3D. Because they used the red-blue anaglyph method, they also included a pair of glasses. It may be an old-fashioned technology for 3D, but it’s still pretty fun. (You can also see the 3D catalog on […]
I love Processing – but are its days numbered? What about Flash? A year ago, nobody would’ve seriously asked these questions — but times are changing fast. For years, Flash, and then Processing, were the tools-of-choice that designers used to explore and experiment with interactive media. But now, as the web’s focus moves to open […]